<figure id="attachment_393380" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 800px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-393380"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="32fc3192"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/e446774a44d67f834b7deb1912848e6a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-393380" class="wp-caption-text">Ran Ito returns to Tokyo on the bullet train from her tour stop in the middle of her national tour</figcaption></figure>
<p>On a night in mid-September, Ran Ito emerged from the ticket gate of a train station in Tokyo.</p>
<p>She was dressed casually in Gucci innerwear, a black parka, and wide jeans. Her long legs and large stride gave her a dashing appearance that gave her the aura of a legendary super idol.</p>
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<h3>Accompanied by a &#8220;cheering squad</h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ito, a member of the legendary Showa-era idol group &#8220;Candy&#8217;s,&#8221; resumed her singing career in earnest in 1919. In 2011, he celebrated the 50th anniversary of his debut and also participated in the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen. He is currently in the midst of the &#8220;Ran Ito Over the Moon COCERT TOUR 2024-2025.&#8221; He is currently in the middle of the &#8220;Ran Ito Over the Moon COCERT TOUR 2024-2025,&#8221; a tour that will take him to nine cities throughout Japan until January 2013, and it seems that he returned to Tokyo after the concert.</span></p>
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<p>Waiting for Ito were a dozen or so men who appeared to be fans of the band from years gone by. They greeted Ito as she came out of the ticket gate. They kept a little distance from her and followed her like &#8220;SS,&#8221; watching her back.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">In the mid-1970s, during the heyday of idols, there was no such thing as the &#8220;SS,&#8221; but a group of devoted fans formed the &#8220;National Candy&#8217;s League. In the mid-1970s, when Candy&#8217;s was at its peak, the &#8220;SS&#8221; did not yet exist, and a group of passionate fans formed the &#8220;National Candy&#8217;s League,&#8221; commonly known as the &#8220;Zen Canren (All Candy&#8217;s League). The &#8220;National Candies League,&#8221; or &#8220;Zen Canren,&#8221; was formed by a group of passionate fans.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The Tokyo branch alone has more than 1,000 members, and even publishes its own newsletter, &#8220;Candy&#8217;s Times. At the Kohaku Uta Gassen (red and white singing contest) at the end of last year, more than 150 members of Zen Canren gathered to support Ito, and their calls and paper tape throwing became a topic of conversation.</span></p>
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<h3>I feel rather protected.</h3>
<p>Ito, who appeared on the May 5, 2006 broadcast of &#8220;Merengue no kanke&#8221; (Nippon Television Network Corporation), looked back on that time and said, &#8220;When I come home from work, I always go to my house.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Whenever I came home from work, there were dozens of fans waiting for me in front of my house. and we would talk a little.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>When asked by one of the performers, &#8220;Weren&#8217;t you scared?&#8221; When asked by one of the performers, &#8220;Were you scared?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I was totally fine. I felt rather protected.</span></p>
<p>I felt protected,&#8221; he replied with a smile. Incidentally, Shigeru Ishiba, 67, who was elected as the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party on September 27, is also known to be an ardent fan of Candy&#8217;s. He can sing all the Candies songs from No. 1 to No. 3 without looking at the lyrics. With the &#8220;cheering squad&#8221; of the new prime minister&#8217;s generation protecting him, Ito will continue his tour&#8230;</p>
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<div data-friday-nextpage-lead="Ran Ito walking with her &quot;cheering squad&quot; watching her."></div>
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<figure id="attachment_393176" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1114px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-393176"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="f0a6e9d9"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/09/b93743f640be0b1328c5a8feeb8d2dca.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-393176" class="wp-caption-text">The ever-youthful Ran Ito (from her Instagram @ranito_official)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_393177" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1386px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-393177"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="474e5100"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/09/1d1ab06425a4383def98b04d29214124.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-393177" class="wp-caption-text">Commemorative photo with members of the national tour (from her Instagram @ranito_official)</figcaption></figure>
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